4.4.5: Vocabulary Practice

What does the word 'attain' mean?

• To lose something

• To achieve through work or effort

• To give up

• To play around.

Fill in the blank: The word 'dangling' means ______.

• A) hanging tightly

• B) hanging loosely

• C) flying high

• D) sitting down

What is the meaning of 'hovering'?

• Running fast

• Staying in the air over one place

• Diving deep

• Walking slowly

Fill in the blank: A 'triumph' is ______.

• a small failure

• a great victory or success

• a minor setback

• a simple task

What does 'connotation' refer to?

• The primary meaning of a word

• An idea or feeling that a word brings up

• A type of punctuation

• A grammatical error.

Fill in the blank: The 'denotation' of a word is ______.

• the primary meaning of a word

• an idea or feeling it brings up

• its color

• its sound

What is 'repetition' in a poem?

• Words repeated in a poem

• A single word

• A new idea

• A punctuation mark.

Fill in the blank: A 'stanza' is ______.

• a single line in a poem

• a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

• a punctuation mark

• a type of rhyme